Have you heard about volcano fried rice?
It’s new style fried rice from Korea, very hot trend food now days!
The perform and presentation of the fried rice inspired from Hanla mountain, 2 highest volcano mountain from Jeju Island, Korea. (The highest mountain is in North Korea, so Hanla is the highest in South Korea)
The spicy fried rice is the volcano and the egg mixture is the magma.
I had this dish from a Korean bbq restaurant in LA, Magal.
I had to recreate this dish at home, because it is such a fun dish to make at home when you are having friends & family coming over to your place!
So simple recipe, but the impact of entertainment piece is quite remarkable!
The fried rice flavor is almost like mild version of Korean spicy pork flavor. But honestly, the fried rice can be any flavor as long as it made with short grain rice!
Usually I love making fried rice with jasmine rice, because it’s so fluffy and every single grain of rice is alive individually.
But this volcano fried rice is a different story, because it needs that sticky starch from short grain rice to stick together and keep the shape of the volcano.
You also can use medium grain rice, but long grain rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice… they won’t work for this recipe.
Well, I should say it will work for this recipe but it will be hard to shape as a volcano.
The pan I used in the video is Le Creuset Braiser. It’s a bit pricy, but I’ve been using this pan for 5 years and it still looks like new pan, even though I get burn often on this pan! It definitely worth the price in my opinion!
I hope you give a try this signature Korean style volcano fried rice at home!
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Volcano Fried Rice
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
Ingredients
For the Sauce
- 2 Tbsp gochujang, Korean red pepper paste
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp mirin, seasoned rice wine
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp chopped garlic (approximately 2 to 4 cloves)
- 1/2 tsp chopped ginger
- 1/2 cup chopped onion (approximately 1/4 of medium size onion)
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
For the Egg Mixture
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
For Fried Rice
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 4 oz ground pork (you can substitute ground chicken, turkey or beef)
- 2 cups cold cooked short grain rice
- 1 package gim, Korean roasted and seasoned seaweed (approximately 1 oz)
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients for sauce and set aside.
- Beat eggs with water and salt in a mixing measuring cup and set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over high heat; add sesame oil and ground pork. Cook pork until brown, about 1 to 2 minutes. Pour sauce mixture, reduce heat to medium and simmer for 1 minute. Stir occasionally.
- Add cold cooked rice and mix well until every single grain of rice is coated with red sauce. Spread evenly on bottom of pan, reduce heat to medium low and leave it for 1 to 2 minutes to create crispy rice bottom.
- Add gim, Korean roasted and seasoned seaweed by crushing with your hand. Mix gim into rice, by scraping rice from pan.
- Put fried rice in middle as mountain shape with 2 spatulas, or worst case, use your hand. Don’t forget to wear plastic glove before you touch fired rice! Turn off heat if it takes a while.
- Create a dent on top of fried rice mountain using back of spatula.
- Turn heat back to medium low if you turned it off. Pour egg mixture slowly aiming to dent, like magma is coming out from volcano.
- Scramble lava eggs so they will evenly cook, about 2 minutes. When eggs are settle, it’s ready to dig in! Enjoy!
- Cook Time: 10 mins
Volcano Fried Rice
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
For the Sauce
- 2 Tbsp gochujang, Korean red pepper paste
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp mirin, seasoned rice wine
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp chopped garlic (approximately 2 to 4 cloves)
- 1/2 tsp chopped ginger
- 1/2 cup chopped onion (approximately 1/4 of medium size onion)
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
For the Egg Mixture
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
For Fried Rice
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 4 oz ground pork (you can substitute ground chicken, turkey or beef)
- 2 cups cold cooked short grain rice
- 1 package gim, Korean roasted and seasoned seaweed (approximately 1 oz)
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients for sauce and set aside.
- Beat eggs with water and salt in a mixing measuring cup and set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over high heat; add sesame oil and ground pork. Cook pork until brown, about 1 to 2 minutes. Pour sauce mixture, reduce heat to medium and simmer for 1 minute. Stir occasionally.
- Add cold cooked rice and mix well until every single grain of rice is coated with red sauce. Spread evenly on bottom of pan, reduce heat to medium low and leave it for 1 to 2 minutes to create crispy rice bottom.
- Add gim, Korean roasted and seasoned seaweed by crushing with your hand. Mix gim into rice, by scraping rice from pan.
- Put fried rice in middle as mountain shape with 2 spatulas, or worst case, use your hand. Don’t forget to wear plastic glove before you touch fired rice! Turn off heat if it takes a while.
- Create a dent on top of fried rice mountain using back of spatula.
- Turn heat back to medium low if you turned it off. Pour egg mixture slowly aiming to dent, like magma is coming out from volcano.
- Scramble lava eggs so they will evenly cook, about 2 minutes. When eggs are settle, it’s ready to dig in! Enjoy!
- Cook Time: 10 mins
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If you didn’t know already, the ‘Save’ and ‘Print’ buttons on the recipes of you site aren’t working. I wanted to be able to make nice print outs to reference in the kitchen so I made this page for printing recipes.
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Wow, Steve, thank you so much! I’m sorry that some of the buttons for the recipe doesn’t work for different internet browsers. I noticed chrome, samsung and a couple others are having problems. Hopefully fix this soon!!
Had so much fun making this recipe!! 🙂 Thank you for being such a great food inspiration to me